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Re:Prospero: A new coding harness for a more civilized age on Sunday November 01, 2026 @12:19PM (#50327577)
France is one of the most well known countries, this old Prospero isn't that famous. It's more like Guinea and someone came up with New Guinea. Oh, wait.
Re:iPhone Duo on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @03:37PM (#49632916)
Yeah although my M4 is more powerful I somehow don't perceive it much and it's so heavy and gets hot. My aging M1 is still snappy for most workloads, the battery holds well, it's light. Only thing I resent is the stupid touch bar instead of proper F keys.

But I'd say it's the exception. In general it's better to wait for later generation.

Vigilantism [0,1] isn't ok in a modern democratic society but if the society tolerates neo-nazis and they get kicked ass it's the least of my problems and far from the terrorism definition.

Terrorism targets the mainstream population, not a bunch of radicals.

Re:Feature Request: Support AGENTS.md on Thursday August 20, 2026 @04:53AM (#49372084)
This plus auto-discovery of nested non-root CLAUDE.mds in a more complex setup (monnorepo or even a big project with different parts)
Re:Karpathy's Pelican on Sunday August 02, 2026 @02:33PM (#49147062)
Beautifully put. Software is ok. It's not going to fix our broken world. If AI could at least find cure for some illnesses that would be great. Or decrease social injustice and help with global warming. But it's likely going to do the exact opposite.
Re:Karpathy's Pelican on Sunday August 02, 2026 @02:17PM (#49146927)
I yearn for the old days of bad photoshop/wordart/powerpoint flyers.

They were visually bad but honest and sometimes soulful or playful.

The AI slop that's everywhere now looks superficially more professional but it's very busy, samey, unnatural and it really turns me off.

Less violent goes a long way.
Re:Claude Opus 5 on Friday July 24, 2026 @04:51PM (#49041430)
In 20 years of my career I haven't seen humans generate correct a11y. When prompted and given quality reference (e.g. UK gov design system) LLMs can nowadays beat 19 out of 20 web devs.

Thanks out can also hook it to Playwright with Axe and let it run assessments.

Then they should stop the development and focus on the identifying of consciousness. But wait, there's money to be made now so screw that and just talk big words to press.
Re:Harness Engineering on Sunday July 19, 2026 @11:59AM (#48969281)
It might be readable to agents but to me it reads like a manic babble.

It's a topic that interests me a lot, I am not a blind AI hater and I can usually stomach LLM prose without issues but I am lost and repulsed here.

Rather cleptocracy. Pedocracy or kakistocracy would also fit.
Re:Ending All Respiratory Infections on Thursday June 25, 2026 @02:16AM (#48669648)
I don't care what was "disproven" or if it's a placebo.

I raised vitamin D intake in winter, I take betaglucans and if I feel like I am starting to get under the weather I take 2-3g of vitamin C per day.

Since we started that, no colds or flus for me or my wife and we have a kindergarten kid.

Re:The Public Should Own Half of the Big A.I. Companies on Wednesday June 03, 2026 @02:10PM (#48387554)
If we are pulling quotes out of a hat, why not some OG one?

“He who oppresses the poor taunts and insults his Maker, But he who is kind and merciful and gracious to the needy honors Him.” Proverbs 14:31

If you have some sort of compliance requirements, you need to update because of the onslaught of CVE vulnerabilities in the older versions. They are mostly bogus like "regexp DOS" but you have to satisfy the process and update anyway.
Re:TurboQuant: A First-Principles Walkthrough on Monday April 27, 2026 @04:52AM (#47919216)
The fonts, the cards, the copy are all hallmarks of Claude Code.

While the aesthetic doesn't spark joy for me, the overall execution is great, the presentation flow and interactive boxes are very nice.

Little.js

Small yet covering all basic needs including sound, performant, great examples that you can use as starters (breakout, platformer, puzzle)

https://github.com/KilledByAPixel/LittleJS

Re:The Ingredients of a Productive Monorepo on Wednesday May 28, 2025 @08:32AM (#44115332)
Codeowners file + required review from the owner team solves like 90% of those worries
Re:The Truth about Atlantis (2019) on Monday April 28, 2025 @01:38PM (#43823964)
Beware, the linked Creative Society is a front for AllatRa sect, very dangerous Russian backed disinformation group that's infiltrating Central Europe.

It goes so far that district attorney from Slovakia, who is a member of the sect is going after Czech journalists who uncover them.

They have tool to generate videos on any esoteric/conspiracy topic with AI assistance.

Sadly I can't link much English sources.

- https://vsquare.org/disinformation-whitewashing-russia-allat...

- https://allatra.tv/en

- https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-61166339

- https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/AllatRa

Re:How Monero Fulfilled Satoshi's Promise on Saturday March 08, 2025 @06:30AM (#43299352)
Monero was the only coin that made sense to me back in the 2017 crypto craze. A real anonymous and government free currency. To this day I am salty that Bitcoin won, such a shitty coin, now firmly embraced by governments, full of regulation. Slow, high fees, not really accepted by merchants. Just a "gold" made out of thin air.
Re:Solarpunk on Wednesday March 05, 2025 @02:16AM (#43263809)
I get what you mean in general, but toothpaste isn't a great example as it's not a necessity. My wife goes without it for years and has no cavity or gum issues.

- https://advanceddentalartsnyc.com/is-toothpaste-necessary/

- https://www.huffmansmilesdental.com/is-it-okay-to-brush-your...

Re:There's Math.random(), and then there's Math.random() on Saturday February 08, 2025 @06:13AM (#42982163)
Probably because they might be forced to sell it? https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp81ppr3l9go.amp
Re:Tailwind V4 Is Finally Out on Thursday January 23, 2025 @02:51AM (#42801723)
There's a bunch of things you can't do with style attributes, just to pick a few:

- Pseudo-classes (e.g., :hover, :focus)

- Pseudo-elements (e.g., ::before, ::after)

- Media queries

- Keyframes and animations

And the DX in a larger project isn't great either.

On the other hand, this upcoming standard is a great addition for collocating styles https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/@scope

Re:Modern JavaScript for Django Developers on Wednesday January 15, 2025 @01:16PM (#42714820)
I can't, our app is enterprise SaaS built as SPA. Nextjs is imho garbage. The only reason I can imagine it is so popular is that average React devs are indeed very bad with code organization. If I needed server rendering I would go with Astro + interactive islands.
Re:Modern JavaScript for Django Developers on Wednesday January 15, 2025 @12:59PM (#42714554)
Those are just shitty codebases. I maintain a React app that's over 10 years old, almost milion lines of code and we have zero components with 20 props, no issues with performance or whatnot.

I am an oponent of over-abstraction but components are very light abstraction and provide just sensible encapsulation and reusability.

Re:Modern JavaScript for Django Developers on Wednesday January 15, 2025 @12:50PM (#42714405)
The job market for php devs is also weird. Very few talented people. Because php jobs on average pay the worst, people who are motivated and smart often learn another language and abandon php. There are some very practical oriented and clever people willing to do php but you have to look very hard.
Re:Modern JavaScript for Django Developers on Wednesday January 15, 2025 @12:41PM (#42714263)
I don't understand the second sentence. As someone developing web apps for over 20 years, components ARE the better code organization.
No idea how it's relevant. For example in USA, I bet the overwhelming majority of homeless are citizens born in USA, not immigrants.

In my central European country with high ethnic homogenity the unhoused are also stemming from majority population. There is a Roma minority who are often struggling with poverty but are rarely unhoused.

Not an LLM but models could get pretty good at weather

https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/12/04/1107892/google-d...

Re:AI Is the Black Mirror on Sunday December 22, 2024 @12:44PM (#42487868)
Put humans in a room in isolation and they get dumber. What makes our intelligence soar is the interaction with the outside world, with novel challenges.

As we stare in the smartphones we get dumber than when we roamed the world with eyes opened.

Re:Satellite powered estimation of global solar potential on Friday December 20, 2024 @02:19PM (#42474007)
Does DSM stand for Digital Surface Model?

Thos exact abbreviation is so overloaded that it doesn't hurt to list the words once.

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